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断 kanji
severance, decline, refuse, apologize, warn, dismiss, prohibit, decision, judgement, cutting
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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ダン
Kun readings
たつことわるさだめる
Variant forms
斷Words with 断
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3横断Popularcrossing (a road, river, etc.); cutting through (e.g. of a river through a town); cutting across; intersecting (e.g. a railway track); crossing (east-west); traversing; travelling across; flying across (e.g. the Pacific); sailing across; cutting horizontally; sectioning laterally
- N3判断Popularjudgment; judgement; decision; conclusion; adjudication; divination; judgement
- N2診断Populardiagnosis; medical examination
- N2断水Popularsuspension of water supply; water outage
- N2断定Popularconclusion; decision; judgement; declaration; affirmative
- N2油断Popularnegligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness
- N1決断Populardecision; determination
- N1断言Popularassertion; declaration; affirmation
- N1断然Popularfirmly; flatly; resolutely; decisively; absolutely; definitely; definitely (wrong, different, etc.); absolutely; by far; far and away; by a long shot; hands down
- N1断面Popularsection; cross section; profile
- N1中断Popularinterruption; suspension; break
- N1無断Popularabsence of permission; lack of permission; absence of (advance) notice; lack of notice
- —断Populardecision; judgment; resolution
- —遮断Popularisolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation
- —縦断Popularrunning through (north-south); cutting across; travelling across; cutting vertically; sectioning longitudinally
- —寸断Popularcutting to pieces; tearing to pieces
- —切断Popularcutting; severance; section; amputation; disconnection
- —断固Popularfirm; determined; resolute; conclusive
- —断行Populardecisive action; carrying out; resolute enforcement; execution
- —断食Popularfasting; fast
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